Re: man pages to text files

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:17:11AM -0600, charles@lunarmedia.net wrote:
> doing something like
> 
>   man tftpd > tftpd.txt
> 
> creates a fairly nasty looking file. is there a better way to capture man 
> page contnts to a regular text file?

There might be a better way, but try this:

    man tftpd | perl -pe 's/.\x8//g' > tftpd.txt

Steve
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